 | Henrietta Keddie - 1854 - 326 pages
...lie in ' Fiftie f adorn deep,' or the stout Admiral, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, with his lofty cheer, " ' Do not fear, Heaven is as near By water as by land.' " Or the noble Portuguese brothers, Cortreal, Vasco, Gasper Miguel, when one of their number launched... | |
 | George Frederick M'Dougall - Arctic regions - 1857 - 628 pages
...Gilbert, who (in the words of the inspired Longfellow) is made to say, to his frightened mariners, " Do not fear ! Heaven is as near By water as by land." Captain M'Clure wound up his harangue by pointing to a cloud edged with a bright light, and assuring... | |
 | Said - 1861 - 348 pages
...was Lady Brackenbury ; the first to whom it was written Ernest Chaloner. CHAPTER XX. THE OKIANA. " Do not fear, heaven is as near By water as by land." LONGFELLOW. SUMMER was fairly begun, and Claude established in his new quarters, when news came from... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1869 - 346 pages
...he tell anyone so unBympathetic as Flora, who would think him wasted in either case ? CHAPTER XVII. Do not fear : Heaven is as near, By water, as by land.' LONGFELLOW. THE fifth of May was poor Harry's eighteenth birthday, and, as usual, was a holiday. Etheldred... | |
 | 1881 - 636 pages
...Hind saw him sitting on deck, reading his Bible, and they were near enough to hear him call out, ' Do not fear, Heaven is as near by water as by land.' In the morning there was no sign of the Squirrel, and Longfellow, in his poem, supposes it to have... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Great Britain - 1883 - 544 pages
...Golden Hind saw him sitting on deck, reading his Bible, and they were near enough to hear him call out, "Do not fear ! Heaven is as near by water as by land." In the morning there was no sign of the Squirrel, and Longfellow, in his poem, supposes it to have... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - English fiction - 1885 - 452 pages
...little yacht went near to pick up the people, and my lather called out, like Sir Humphrey Gilbert — " Do not fear. Heaven is as near By water as by land." And the little yacht was so close when the great ship blew up that it got sucked down in the whirlpool,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 278 pages
...on sea or shore, Should Sir Humfrey see the light. He sat upon the deck, The Book was in his hand, Do not fear, Heaven is as near By water as by land. In the first watch of the night, Without a signal's sound, Out of the sea, mysteriously, The fleet... | |
 | Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood - English language - 1888 - 446 pages
...daughters virtuous"; "Look, you can see from this window my brazen howitzer"; "You too, Brutus ! " " Do not fear ! Heaven is as near ... by water as by land." " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories." " If you wish a thing to be well done, You... | |
 | Thomas Wright - London - 1892 - 404 pages
...mighty waters, is again apparent. For example, the memorial lines on the card last spoken of are — " Do not fear, heaven is as near By water as by land." On another card that I recall to mind the lines ran — " Tis well to find our last repose Where the... | |
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Do not fear, Heaven is as near By water as by land. 
